From supporting Hitler and Mussolini, to calling non-White British Olympians “plastic Brits”, to likening migrants to rats and other pests, the Daily Mail has a rich and enduring legacy of stoking xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic sentiment. Spouting such overt prejudice over the decades has...
MEND is proud to be a signatory to the Traveller Movement’s open letter to Priti Patel condemning her criminalisation of communities. Criminalising minority groups on the basis of protected characteristics such as race or religion can only serve to demonise communities and further entrench...
Earlier this month, it was revealed that a top pro-Israeli lawyer faked a vandalism attack at his home last year in a plot to smear the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC). Unfortunately, such disreputable campaign tactics have often been routinely utilised by pro-Israel groups to smear...
MEND Press Release: Over 40 faith-based, community, and equalities organisations have signed an open letter to Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) following serious allegations of racism. According to Azeem Rafiq, who played for the club between 2008 and 2018, his experiences of racism at the club...
Over 40 faith-based, community, and equalities organisations have signed an open letter to Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) following serious allegations of racism. In recent weeks, both Azeem Rafiq and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, have reported institutional and systematic racism while playing for the...
Britain First, whilst seemingly having disappeared into obscurity over the last years, have once again garnered infamy in mainstream media by “invading” hotels, castigating the defenceless and vulnerable, and manipulating facts. Tactics which helped them cultivate a network of far-right...
The 27th of August marked the day that judgement was finally handed down to the far-right terrorist who perpetrated the Christchurch terror attack on mosques in New Zealand last year. He was one of a number of far-right terrorists who carried out (or attempted to carry out) terror attacks in 2019,...
Numerous statistics, reports, and anecdotal evidence in the past have documented both the covert and overt racism faced by BAME pupils and staff within UK schools. With the issue of systemic racism coming to significant light in the last few months, it becomes more important than ever that the...
From supporting Hitler and Mussolini, to calling non-White British Olympians “plastic Brits”, to likening migrants to rats and other pests, the Daily Mail has a rich and enduring legacy of stoking xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic sentiment. Spouting such overt prejudice over the decades has...
The perception of Muslims currently fuelled by the UK’s mainstream media is overwhelmingly negative. In particular, the identities of Muslim women are all too often portrayed in binary terms as either a victim of culture or a cultural threat. Depicting a Muslim woman, the media often highlights...
This article was first published on Byline Times. The last weeks have witnessed a growing outcry against the State’s use of algorithms to predict the results of students across the country at the detriment of students predominantly from disadvantaged backgrounds. Students that were predicted A*s...
